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In Jolla the hackers finally have a smartphone they can fiddle with

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Arriving just before the holidays, I’ve finally had some time to sit down with the Jolla I ordered as part of the first batch of FInnish smartphones are write a proper preview of the handset. Given I can spend a decent amount of time with it, a full review is going to take another week or two, but here are my first thoughts: Differentiating in hardware is not Jolla’s goal – it’s all about the software and specifically about Sailfish OS. Sailfish OS is based on the Mer project, which was built on the MeeGo project, which itself was a

Some thoughts on the Pebble smart watch

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Four weeks on the wrist, and I’m all set to go Charlton Heston on you if you try to pry it off. The Pebble smartwatch cracks the challenge of the smartwatch, and while it’s not the final iteration of the wearable technology, the Pebble reminds me of the promise of the early Psion and Palm devices I used. The Pebble reminds me of the early days of the PDA, with many limitations in the hardware and software being overcome by smart hacking. The limitations of size and interface are obvious, while others are down to the hardware design (the Pebble

It started with the 7650 camera phone, it ends with the 808 camera phone

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Nokia’s Q4 results, released today: During our transition to Windows Phone through 2012, we continued to ship devices based on Symbian. The Nokia 808 PureView, a device which showcases our imaging capabilities and which came to market in mid 2012, was the last Symbian device from Nokia. And that’s also the end of Psion’s operating system in consumer electronics, with the EPOC Series 5 standing out as the first device runnig the OS that would become Symbian. Want to go back further? Start at the SIBO Series 3 PDA’s that inspired the Electronic Piece of Cheese OS, that grew up

What could happen to WebOS now?

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So you have a competent smartphone operating system, an engineering team that, with the right inducement, could stay with the OS, and a rather fluid market looking for options. What will HP do with WebOS next? Let’s have some pointless speculative fun over the next few paragraphs. Facebook buys the whole operation. Probably a long shot, and built on the speculation that Zuckerberg and co. are working on a Facebook phone. They certainly have some raw data (via Three in the UK), and acquiring a bundle of software engineers, an OS that is built on HTML5 and web technologies, with (you assume)